What an arse!
Re:Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs
by GermTheGeek on Friday October 07, 2011 @07:00AM
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Made me laugh at the very least, RMS is a nutter.
Re:Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs
by bluekeybox on Friday October 07, 2011 @07:19AM
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Wow, reads like something a psychopath would write. Reminds me of Cat's diary entry: http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/humor/otherhumor/dog_cat_diar...
Wow. How really?
He was writing his opinion. Is that considered psychopath?
Re:Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs
by lurch_mojoff on Friday October 07, 2011 @02:35PM
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Lack of empathy is the definition of psychopathy. A psychopath will look at someone ran over on the street and think "too bad it ruined that nice jacket" or something similarly disjointed form the fact that a human being is dead. Stallman's comment is similarly unempathetic.
A psychopath might also feel kinship with someone they've never met and defend them like family.
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Or we could stop calling each other psychopaths.
Re:Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs
by bluekeybox on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:11PM
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> A psychopath might also feel kinship with someone they've never met and defend them like family
No, psychopaths don't feel kinship with anything but themselves.
I lost a point for suggesting that we not bandy about a medical term as a pejorative. I apologize for offending anyone.
Re:Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs
by bluekeybox on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:35PM
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No hard feelings; nice little site you have. I would drop reference to bitter humor from "hire me" page though; not many bosses I know like bitter people.
(Reply to bluekeybox). I appreciate the compliment and advice. I may tone my language down but I figured I should be honest! :)
Re:Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs
by bluekeybox on Friday October 07, 2011 @10:46AM
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Lighten up, I was only half-serious. Even if RMS is indeed a psychopath, he's not a very dangerous one.
Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.
As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.
Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective.